However nobody has yet died.

I think my favourite in this house was wall lights built at home using bits
of old fresnel screens and hardboard, wired with ordinary mains two core
flex down the wall just under the wallpaper in rough grooves in the wall and
filled with plastic wood to make it almost flat. OK till you start too
really scrape the wallpaper off and short out the flex, bang.
Just finding where it was wired in was a bit of a job, seems to have been
in a two pin plug and socket under the loose floorboard in the doorway held
in by duct tape.

The ring main to the sockets had simply been cut and joined by a chock block
for the earth and the two pin plug for the other two.


I guess back in the 60s nobody bothered too much about this sort of thing,
plugging the electric iron into the ceiling lamp socket with an adaptor
bought from Woolies.
Brian

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So far, in this house I've found: CPCs wrapped under the heads of wood
screws securing a plastic pattress box, dishwasher wired brown-to-black
and blue-to-red, shelving supports fixed with 1/2" screws (barely in the
plaster), door hinges secured with long BZP pozi screws that have the
plain shank in the door frame, BZP posi screws everywhere, a kitchen
extractor blowing into a capped chimney, a concealed shower mixer fitted
without thought of how to service it (there's a leak!), a 13A socket
connected to a ceiling rose, T&E run on catenary wires to sheds (signed
off a year ago but the insulation had degraded so far it was falling off).
Today I found that the spur to a double 13A socket runs in a rough channel
in the concrete underneath a parquet floor. Sigh! I haven't checked yet
but it's probably a spur from a spur.
Fortunately there haven't been any structural "improvements".
Please people, if you don't know what you're doing then don't do it!

I feel much better for that vent. I'm ready for my medicine now nurse ;-)